Cardona v. Kreamer

OPINION

BALES, Justice.

¶ 1 This case involves an attempt to serve process on persons and business entities in Mexico via postal channels and email. We hold that such service is incompatible with Mexico’s accession to the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (the “Hague Service Convention”), which provides that service of foreign judicial documents in Mexico must be made through Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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¶ 2 In 2008, the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and a holding company created by the…